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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning enable humans all around the world to take part in classes online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are considering today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to better understand these interesting new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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